Devotional
No more days of goodbyes
Every now and then God brings someone into your life that blesses you. You feel a connection with them as you share together of God and life, the ordinary and the profound. And every now and then the time comes to say goodbye. I hate saying goodbye. Goodbyes make me sober. They make me reflective. [...]
The Two Books
In the Pixar movie Up, the story begins as a boy and girl meet and share a scrap book of their adventures. They later marry, still dreaming of exploring new lands. Growing old together, they were never able to actually go overseas and the wife passed away. Eventually the old widower re-opened the dusty scrap [...]
A Photo Won’t Do
Pormpuraaw has two rivers. The Moonkan River to the north and to the south, the Chapman River. Beach stretches between the two mouths of the rivers and of course looks out to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Not far from the rivers are camping grounds with an amenities block and a sheltered barbecue area. The Chapman [...]
The Road Less Travelled
There is a road that leads into Pormpuraaw. 207 kilometres of dirt road. It only leads to Pormpuraaw. Main Roads keeps it driveable just for those who drive into Pormpuraaw. There are segments of bitumen along this road but they are short and sweet. Just enough time to rearrange your seating, relax your shoulders a [...]
God’s Love Demonstrated
Thanks to Facebook, I recently saw something I had not seen before in a wedding, from a couple I knew from uni. Both are musicians and in their wedding, the groom chose to sing to his bride as she approached. I showed this to teens at school and asked what they thought. Their reactions ranged [...]
Pormpuraaw Ponderings
We moved to Pormpuraaw nearly a year ago. To say that living here is different from where we used to live is very true. It’s different in many ways. In some ways, it’s a different culture, a different way of looking at the world. So I thought over the 12 weeks of blogging, I could [...]
Conflict Develops People
One of the things I’ve realized as I’ve been studying church history is that oftentimes the conflict and persecution the early church went through helped develop it doctrinally, spiritually and practically. I realize all of these are intertwined to a great extent but I’ll break down what I mean through this post. It’s easy to [...]
Exit Row Ecstacy
I was in Sydney last weekend ministering at a youth conference. I booked return flights on 2 different airlines. Both flights, save for this bit of trivia, were, for differing reasons, abject disasters. Endless waits for baggage drops, security checks, flights and then baggage collection. Then, after finally arriving in my old stomping ground, when [...]
God’s Will™
Introduction I’m throwing my thoughts out here so to speak, but what do you think of when you think about “The will of God™“? Many Christian, both young and old have a continual struggle “discerning God’s will for their lives™“. They may spend a lot of time praying and seeking counsel and reading the Bible [...]
A Thousand Thanks
O for a thousand tongues to sing My great Redeemer’s praise, The glories of my God and King, The triumphs of his grace! Charles Wesley wrote thousands of hymns and was certainly prolific in his praise. He wrote this hymn to commemorate the renewal of his faith after a crisis of doubt. The line “O [...]
Like A Boomerang
One time in uni speech class, I was assigned to give an instructional speech. My assignment was to teach the class to throw a boomerang. Easy work, if you know how to throw one. I didn’t. I remember practicing daily in the athletic field before sunrise. During this time, I discovered why you don’t throw [...]
I Will Not Forget Thee O Perth
By the time this blog is posted, Lord willing, we would have arrived home. Perth has been our arena of ministry these last couple of weeks, not to mention the place where we rediscovered winter. It has been interesting seeing our little boy Michael adjust to different surroundings. When he was just 10 days old [...]
